Re: cable guy "vapor"-izes DSL 3X cable TV troll!

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From: Albert Hennesy
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 06:13

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"John Navas" wrote:
> David Knight wrote:
>
> >Here is a link to a PC Magazine report published a
> >couple weeks ago (Jan. 19).
> >
> >http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2675431,00.html
> >
> >Speeds to 8 major sites (which likely have more bandwidth)
> >are reported to be much faster for cable modem customers,
> >consistent with the DSL Reports archive rankings. 800 DSL
> >and cable modem customers from across the country with
> >multiple ISPs were surveyed.
>
> I think it's patently obvious that the report measured up to PC
> Magazine's usual high standards.  <g>  Do you really think that,
> for example, Earthlink DSL subscribers actually averaged less
> than 20 Kbps most of the week, and that performance actually
> varied by as much as 2.5x from weekday to weekday?


    The graph was mis-labeled.  It should have read "Kilobytes
per second" and the actual throughput for a 56K modem should
have been "5kBps".  The weekday-to-weekday graph (on another
page) is, admittedly, hard to believe and contrary to my experience with
Earthlink.


Al_Hennesy

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